The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
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The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8d ago
This is missing some steps. There are plenty of government rules, which, on their face, are not enforced through violence and kidnapping. In many of those cases, you have to posit a persistently-oppositional figure and a continued escalatory cycle to get to an eventual end state where the ultimate response to unending opposition is, indeed, violence/kidnapping.
It's the same picture. The government won't give up until it has won.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
28d ago
Freedoms come with responsibility, as they say
The "they" who say this are generally authoritarians, who sometimes write unintentional parodies of Bills of Rights in the form of paired statements of the form "You have the right to do X, you have the responsibility not to do X unless we say it's OK".
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6hr ago
Elsewhere, someone else talked about a marriage needing to be in service of something greater than the marriage. To many social conservatives, it seems like the answer to this is a deity. To me, it seems like you should just be able to make the marriage in service of the children.
Children are not "greater than the marriage", so they do not provide an answer to that, if one is needed.
If you want progeny, though, you have to have the conditions for it. Social conservative communities provided those conditions, but I don't think they can do so any more. Modernity, however, seems to be failing more and more. I have no answers, but I'm fairly sure "more of the same" won't work.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
18hr ago
It's not, the product is still not available. Which makes me suspect "entirely fake".
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
A strawberry picker that's slow, isn't actually available and apparently works only on hydroponic berries? I think Juan Enrique still has his job. Maybe another 5-10 years it'll make a dent, assuming the product isn't entirely fake.
Tomatoes are indeed largely automatically harvested. The catch is... well, do you think a tomato you buy in the grocery store could stand up to what that robot is doing? Nope... those are tomatoes for processing, not for eating fresh.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Americans should mow their own lawns
Eh, f--- that, I've got hay fever.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
I don’t think farming is grunt work
It is, whether you think so or not, which is why historically when people got the chance they fled the farms for horrible factory jobs.
I don't see any reason it would be "innoble" or "beneath human dignity", but it's backbreaking.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
What is your excuse for why China is able to do it while having a one standard deviation higher median IQ over America?
They likely don't; all those rural laborers don't show up in the IQ stats because they don't take the tests.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
4d ago
They actually police fraud much less than low-trust ones, take people at their word and generally assume their good faith.
This is an unstable situation, though, unless fraudsters actually are punished a good bit of the time. If they prosper, your high-trust society days are numbered as the chumps figure out they're chumps and stop trusting and/or turn to fraud themselves.
If we're talking about some less-than-Dunbar's number small community, that's pretty easy, if Aaron Stevenson Stoltzfus invents lying in some small naive Amish community, then even if he doesn't get formally punished (which he likely would be, the Amish not actually being naive), word's going to get around and no one is going to trust him. Anything larger and it's a lot more difficult.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
6d ago
Note my trade is not at par for QALYs, it's at par for unadjusted LYs.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
11d ago
It's a euphemism.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
12d ago
I don't think we are going to get on the same page about this, but as a fact matter - if your friend was psychotic under the influence of a substance at that time he had poor judgement and insight, if they were committed involuntary (the correct response to oh holy shit the walls are talking to me is to you know, get help).
Someone experiencing a psychotic episode is often not aware that they are no longer aligned with reality. They are experiencing not just hallucinations but delusions. Yes, obviously they have "poor judgement and insight" while actually experiencing the psychotic episode; that's not reason to deprive them of fundamental rights forever.
One of the challenges of managing society in general is what to do with people who are "fine" most of the time but dangerous while in a certain state (like decompensated mental illness, tripping balls, or just pissed off).
That's pretty much everyone.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
13d ago
The point is "exaggerated porn noises" during sex, even if the girl isn't enjoying herself.
Yes, that was in said major motion picture trailer.
When (generic) you tell me "porn is making kids think choking during sex is normal", I'm inclined to consider it. When you say "Porn is making kids think choking, pleasurable noises, and women having (or faking) orgasms during sex is normal" I'm inclined to think you just have something against porn that might be unrelated.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
20d ago
So if the IAEA says they are in compliance --> they are in compliance.
No. I think the IAEA will generally say they are in compliance regardless of whether they are, and most likely they have not been for quite a while.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
20d ago
But the consequences of their choices is permanent conflict around them, and a world (which to an extent they depend on) that is steadily losing sympathy for their plight.
It seems Iran has lost international sympathy even faster; Putin shrugged and said there's a lot of Russian-speaking Israelis, and China isn't lifting a finger for them either. (To be fair, China said the UN Security Council should act against the US. Which is a joke seeing as the US has a veto). The consequences of their choices may be permanent conflict, but it does not appear -- aside from ceasing to exist -- that they have options which do not involve that.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
24d ago
Why should Ted or Bush or anyone bother weighing up the pros and cons if God is on his side and will sort it out anyway?
You have perhaps heard the sayings "God helps those who help themselves" and "God is on the side with the superior firepower"?
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
27d ago
Jolani is at least pretending to be an ex-terrorist. Iran is steadfast in its hatred of the US.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
8hr ago
Whatever happened with Obama's birth certificate?
On September 16, 2016, Trump announced that Obama was born in the United States.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
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7.77 million tons of rice production annually isn’t trivial
It's about 15% more than US rice production, and Japan's biggest crop by far. Meanwhile, the US with only roughly 3 times the population also produces 8.5 million tons of sorghum, 48 million tons of wheat, 117 million tons of soybeans (which Japan imports a good deal of), and 370 million tons of corn. Of course, these are all cereal grains and all subject to harvesting and processing with automation; Japan no longer has to rely on peasants with sickles and hand flails. That's why nobody talks about rice pickers but rather fruit pickers. Automated fruit harvesting, at least for first quality fruits, is something that hasn't been solved for many fruits.
Green tea is a little more like fruit, in that the top quality stuff is hand picked, but harvesting of lower quality stuff is automated. But 77,000 tons really is trivial.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Illegals and ex-cons. Apparently current-cons too; some meatpackers employ people on work programs from prisons, which is as close to slavery as you can get legally.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Why do you think MAGA was united against bombing Iran or about Epstein? Aside from the very-online right portion? (Anyway, if there's nothing there with Epstein, Trump can hardly produce it) But if this was true, it would demonstrate the opposite of your point -- that MAGA is NOT what Trump says it is.
Stephen Miller obviously advised Trump against any sort of farmworker amnesty, but Trump had to know he would. The question is why Trump would listen to Miller in this instance. And that could well be because MAGA really was fairly well united against that.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
Japan imports a massive amount of food. This would be pretty dumb for the US to do, considering the massive amount of farmland we have.
(I believe the US is a net food importer by dollars, but not by calories)
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
1d ago
AOC at least used to have a large group she spoke for, but if AOC and Nancy Pelosi disagreed, you certainly couldn't say AOC spoke for the left as a whole.
The_Nybbler
In the game of roller derby, women aren't just the opposing team; they're the ball.
11d ago
As @ToaKraka notes, 13/52 refers to the extremely disproportionate percentage of homicides committed by black people (13% of the population, 52% of the homicides). The US (and the pre-US colonies) already engaged in mass importation of high time preference demographics (I'll reserve judgement on the second part); they've been around as long as most of the white people have, and so deporting them is not possible.
That argues against demographics mattering. Both Iranian and Arab Islamic populations show affinity for the strictest Islamic governments.
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